sell one 's birthright for a pottage of lentils

sell one 's birthright for a pottage of lentils

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è IXI à OSH à D à, which means to cause great losses for small profits. From a little history of civilization.

The origin of Idioms

The 29th chapter of Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in the Qing Dynasty: "if you don't want to, he will tell the master. He will find you some mistakes and change you. Can you make a small mistake and lose a big one?"

Idiom usage

It refers to the loss of big things from small things.